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Originally Posted by Kevin2960
I am sorry Ben,
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Three sorry's in one post - stop it, you're entitled to your opinion!
(You're just wrong - sorry!)
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a) That you have been a victim of theft, and of Copyright Infringement, I think them equal in all honesty
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Equal? They don't feel equal. In my case, illegal copying applied to software that I'd written. I treat it as a fact of life that some people will break the copy protection and not pay for it. It doesn't feel like a big deal to me, and I'm not sure whether it cost me any significant volume of sales. On the other hand, having someone break into my house and steal things felt very bad.
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b) That i have to again disagree with you, It is morally wrong, I Don't think we are given the right to help ourselves, just to take and make fair payment, and to me it sounded in the original post, that the author was upset and felt cheated by people downloading the book in large numbers, but so very very few making ANY payment at all,
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Remember, what we're talking about here is content that was offered for free download, for people to pay for if they liked it. How is it morally bad to download it but not get around to reading it? The author gave the right to help ourselves - there was no illegal copying in this example. What would be bad is if lots of people read and enjoyed it and didn't pay - but we don't know that this happened.
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A lot of members here moan about being riped of by publishers, but then dont think it wrong to not make even token payments for eBooks, I can't see how BOTH attitudes can be held by one person
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I think that you're missing the nuances here. There are people who think that it's always bad, and people who think that it's always OK, but for most people, it depends on the circumstances as to whether one should have to pay for content. When it's convenient to pay for quality at a fair price, most people will pay.
I don't think that the impression that "a lot of members" here don't "make even token payments for eBooks" is right. I think that most members here are delighted to find authors, like Richard, who make their books available at a fair price. You'll find lots of people bending over backwards - even using false addresses etc. - in order to pay for ebooks. There is wide frustration that publishers seem to be going out of their way to make it difficult to buy ebooks straightforwardly.